Ali Motahari, the deputy speaker of Iran’s parliament, called for a nationwide referendum about the compulsory wearing of the hijab (headscarf) on Monday, adding that he was positive the results would be for the hijab. Mathari’s open support for the hijab coincides with the yearly anniversary of the creation of the campaign to remove compulsory hijab in Iran, which was started by women who started taking off their hijabs in public squares across the country, and were faced by ...

An Iranian man unleashed a tirade of abuse against an unveiled woman on the streets of Tehran, telling her that she “deserved to be raped.” Iranian activist Masih Ali Nejad, who has been living in the United States for years, told Al Arabiya English that she filmed her encounter with the man and posted it to Instagram, garnering more than 1 million views. In the caption, Nejad wrote: “This pro-regime vigilante in Iran harassed me in the street. He said women like me who don't ...

In recent years, many Indians especially women and youngsters are entering the field of power-centric sports professionally and breaking stereotypes. Among them is a 23-year old Keralite Muslim girl, Majiziya Bhanu, who has proved her mettle in the world of strength-based sports by winning more than a dozen laurels in powerlifting, body building and arm wrestling events ever since her debut in 2016. Hailing from Orkkatteri, a small town in Kozhikode District of Kerala, and pursuing dental course ...

Danish police said on Wednesday that they had opened an investigation into a policewoman who embraced a veiled protester wearing a niqab during a demonstration in Copenhagen last month. A Reuters photographer took pictures of the incident on Aug. 1 in what appeared to be the protestor crying when the ban on the face veil came into effect in public places across Denmark. “The picture forced the police to be involuntarily involved in a very sensitive political debate,” said Marcus ...

In the course of history, women's clothing has always been one of the first issues that have been exploited by various ideological systems, and the body of women has been an ideologi-cal battleground between the conflicting fronts. Although the issue of men's clothing is not entirely exempted from dress codes restrictions, it does not reach the level of restrictions that women experience. Throughout the history of Iran, similar to other countries, the advancement of society has always had a ...

An Uzbek imam has been sacked after urging President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to lift a ban on personal religious symbols such as women’s hijabs and beards for men, in a case showing the limits of newly-proclaimed tolerance in the mainly Muslim country. Mirziyoyev, who came to power in 2016, has relaxed restrictions on religious freedoms as part of his campaign of liberal economic and political reforms in the former Soviet republic of 32 million. But his government ...

Iranian Masih Alinejad, activist and TV journalist on the Tablet show on VOA and founder of #WhiteWednesdays, #MyCameraIsMyWeapon and #MyStealthyFreedom campaigns against compulsory hijab, posted on her twitter account on Friday, a video documenting a face-off between a young Iranian woman whose hijab was a bit loose on her forehead and an Iranian cleric in the streets of the capital Tehran. The incident happened on a Tehran street when the cleric asks her to fix her hijab, and the female ...

A video circulating on social media has shown Iranian police chasing a number of women and girls because of their dress, trying to impose a certain way of wearing the hijab. The video, which first surfaced on Tuesday, shows the female members of the religious police chasing a school girl until she hopped onto a bus, speaking violently with her because of the way she is wearing her hijab. One of the religious policewomen was seen pushing the school girl inside the bus and forcing her to ...

The superintendent of an elementary school in Abadan, southwestern Iran, reportedly cut a girl’s hair for not properly covering it.The incident took place on May 6, according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran’s women’s committee, at an all-girls elementary school in Abadan’s Golestanshahr district.The superintendent used scissors and cut the girl’s hair because it had stuck out of her hijab.The girl, identified only as Narges, then suffered from an ...

An Iranian woman was physically and verbally assaulted after a man slapped her for refusing to wear the hijab. In a video that has been circulated on social media, the woman can be seen responding to the man who was driving his car but, specifically stopped in a parking lot, believed to be in Tehran, to comment or her visible hair. The man yelled, demanding that she must “obey the rules”, reported the Daily Mail. Firmly responding to him, the woman said: “I don’t like ...